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10 min | | Andrés González | |
5 min
| Insights 2.0? | Edward Zarecor | At the conference the 2U product team spoke about “Insights 2.0.” Can someone describe the scope of that effort? Will it be valuable outside of 2U? Notes Insights 2.0 is super aspirational 2U have designs Not planned for work for two quarters Insights data is useful, but has significant gaps Intends to allow in-context analytics What they have been working on was focused on replacing the pipeline If they have to replace the Insights frontend, they would open a number of architectural questions should it be combined with the data api should insights be an MFE Should django be side-lined to avoid ORM performance tax
As this isn’t actively in development, this is all speculation Dave Ormsbee (Axim) asks has there been clarification about the intended audience of Insights in 2.0. Yes, will be staying focused on the aggregates, not individual learners. Learner view is being deprecated
Dave Ormsbee (Axim) will the data be primarily instructional or will it included things like program enrollments? Edward Zarecor were the designs based on user research or blue sky? 2U did user research, mostly with administrators They would like to do a big round of customer interviews with instructors
Edward Zarecor are the designs sharable? Andrés González what are the specific challenges that 2U are facing with PII? Is there a business specific data need that requires individual data access regimes? Andy Shultz (Deactivated) proposes an early fork in an analytics design the separates aggregated data and individual data.
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10 min | Bite-sized work | Edward Zarecor | Let’s think about what bite-sized work would be valuable to start on now and commit to doing some of it. I have a few idea. |
2 min | Starting a conversation about Embargoing the Open edX event system | Edward Zarecor | |
5 min | Completion Aggregator | Sofiane Bebert | openedx-completion-aggregator Sofiane Bebert thought this plugin is very useful and asks whether it should be part of the default Open edX release? Dave Ormsbee (Axim) not sure if http://edx.org runs plugin. This plugin wasn’t upgraded to Django 3.2, so unlikely that this is run there – edx.org Walking the course tree is expensive, we do that elsewhere, so that in itself is not a disqualification Need more data from OpenCraft Julien Maupetit is there an event for completion at the block level currently, with the block name and the block id Dave Ormsbee (Axim) if it is not the case that this event is already created, it should be easy to do so because the completion API is already persisting this data to a table.
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| Figures | John Baldwin | Was an appsembler contribution to the community Replaced an internal product they had that generated CSV files Figures is a dashboard the provides different context views Course-centric with drill down to view learners Not great at analytics, really more of an exploratory dashboard During development they struggled getting robust requirements from users or future users John dug into what was available in the platform and accepted the definitions that he found there How can one find block ids – seems like a perennial problem for multiple users. Figures A Django app It’s an Open edX plugin that plugs into the LMS and use it’s resources It is not opinionated about the architecture. It does not currently process tracking logs It does creates its own tables The platform models don’t track rich history Performance of analytics queries, for example, courseware_studentmodule doesn’t have the indexes for efficient querying
Figures does use celery jobs to marshall the data into it’s datamart
Sofiane Bebert is working on an update of Figures for Maple. He doesn’t think that an update for Nutmeg will be difficult. John Baldwin is also working on a series of fixes that improve performance and fix known bugs. Not really adding new features, but adding some instrumentation. If one does not have persistent grades installed, queries can be very expensive Figures is an active project, but current level of investment is not high because of other business priorities. Currently runs in the Appsembler Tahoe platform Tahoe has a feature flag that allows it to use a different celery queue than the LMS to prevent resource contention, this is really a server var and is set at start up. Interested in a conversation with folks about the Instructor dashboard Is there a Tutor plugin for Figures? There is currently, but it is not maintained Maintenance was paused until Figures is updated After Sofiane completes the upgrades for Maple and Nutmeg, it would be possible for someone to take on maintenance of the Tutor plugin.
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